Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:55:54 -0700
> Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
>
> > Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window
> > manager is the way to go. That's what I did. Installed Openbox.
> > The same WM that LXDE uses. A little more work, but worth it.
> >
> >
>
> i'll second the use of openbox. i use it with fbpanel.
>
> i too believe that gnome just pulls in way too much "stuff".
>
> the most inconvenient thing about not using gnome is not having a way
> to handle USS mass storage devices.
I wrote a generic udev rule for that. Of course, there are also
mounting utilities that do the same thing. But I opted for the
light-on-resources rule instead.
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